Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beaver's Bite. The British critics' chief target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble...
Fiery Plunge. The X-17 is not intended to land safely or to hit a target. The effect of high speed on its nose is observed by instruments and radioed to earth while the missile is still in flight. No official leak has described its last moments, but an eyewitness of a night flight was enormously impressed. Rising from Cape Canaveral, the X-17 was aimed on this occasion so that it would come down in the Atlantic 80 miles east of Florida...
Flying 2,200 feet above the 50-yard target area, at a clip of 80 m.p.h., Weatherly-White dropped to the ground a mere 9 ft., 3 1/2 in. from the target center, amid the cheers of almost 1,000 spectators, who were held back by U.S. Marine Corps guards, in dress uniform, and officers of the Connecticut State Police...
...first thrill of the afternoon came when Dartmouth freshman Charlie Hotchkiss, who was making only the ninth jump of his career, landed 39 ft., 9 in. from the target center. Hotchkiss used a Derry Steerable chute, which allows more control over horizontal movement than the chute used by Weatherly-White...
Most Indonesians trusted Dr. Djuanda; they did not trust Sukarno's pro-Red ministers. Principal target of criticism was Stalin Peace Prizewinner Prijono, whom Sukarno named Minister of Education. Opposition politicians (including the powerful Moslem anti-Communist Masjumi Party, Indonesia's second largest, which ordered a boycott of the Cabinet), objected to at least three other Communist-line ministers...